I don’t normally engage in online conversations with electricity guzzling silicon processors but someone on X was using Grok to bolster their argument for renewable energy and Grok stated something which I could not allow to go unchallenged.
Good to hear as far as it goes, but reading both your own and Lady Hope's engagements with the AI, what strikes me most forcefully about this is that I'm already not inclined to trust anything from any of these tools. When anybody leads in basically saying "Prove me *this*" then specifying what it wants proved, my sense is that hey! whichever the AI, it will do its absolute best to oblige, and even if it doesn't stoop to hallucination on any given day, *it will do its absolute best to oblige*. Sources and data seem likely to be cherry-picked, it will assure the questioner they are right as often as possible, and be positive and supportive about whatever one is trying to do with the information.
Yes, AI is just a tool, and like any tool, it will be employed to the benefit of those using it. But to be human is to meet challenges from those using tools by turning those tools back on them, or by picking up the same tool and using it yourself, more intelligently. But having said that, I still much prefer good old fashioned brain power and non-AI enhanced hard slog research and reading.
Nice one! What Grok has just said and what President Trump has just said in Scotland are the simple arguments climate sceptics have been making for decades but have been consistently fobbed off.
I wonder if you could get Grok to admit that atmospheric CO2 poses negligible threat to the global climate. Failure to do so would surely indicate GIGO. Maybe just get it to say what difference (if any) unilateral UK Net Zero would make to the global climate.
After decades of having our protests fobbed-off, President Trump did a great job of cutting Starmer and von der Leyen down to size across the political board. If they continue to disregard what he said (and what Grok says) we need to challenge them to respond. Daniel Jupp has done a great post on how Trump calmly dismantled everything Starmer believes in (expanded in the comments as well): https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/trump-calmly-dismantles-everything.
I was a bit disappointed that Trump didn’t give the SNP’s John Swinney a hard time but maybe he’s just being diplomatic, biding his time for the right moment.
Well done Jaime. I never could see the logic in stopping using coal at Drax (which was built next to a coal field for convenience) and shipping wood chips from abroad to burn instead.
Good to hear as far as it goes, but reading both your own and Lady Hope's engagements with the AI, what strikes me most forcefully about this is that I'm already not inclined to trust anything from any of these tools. When anybody leads in basically saying "Prove me *this*" then specifying what it wants proved, my sense is that hey! whichever the AI, it will do its absolute best to oblige, and even if it doesn't stoop to hallucination on any given day, *it will do its absolute best to oblige*. Sources and data seem likely to be cherry-picked, it will assure the questioner they are right as often as possible, and be positive and supportive about whatever one is trying to do with the information.
Yes, AI is just a tool, and like any tool, it will be employed to the benefit of those using it. But to be human is to meet challenges from those using tools by turning those tools back on them, or by picking up the same tool and using it yourself, more intelligently. But having said that, I still much prefer good old fashioned brain power and non-AI enhanced hard slog research and reading.
Nice one! What Grok has just said and what President Trump has just said in Scotland are the simple arguments climate sceptics have been making for decades but have been consistently fobbed off.
I wonder if you could get Grok to admit that atmospheric CO2 poses negligible threat to the global climate. Failure to do so would surely indicate GIGO. Maybe just get it to say what difference (if any) unilateral UK Net Zero would make to the global climate.
A further US MAGA development is that they have started the formal process of scrapping the CO2 Endangerment Finding which is based on the fake science that CO2 is a danger to human health. This is roughly the US equivalent of the UK scrapping (if only) the legally-binding fake science-based Climate Change Act: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/29/skeptics-win-endangerment-finding-axed-truth-finally-prevails-in-the-climate-wars/.
After decades of having our protests fobbed-off, President Trump did a great job of cutting Starmer and von der Leyen down to size across the political board. If they continue to disregard what he said (and what Grok says) we need to challenge them to respond. Daniel Jupp has done a great post on how Trump calmly dismantled everything Starmer believes in (expanded in the comments as well): https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/trump-calmly-dismantles-everything.
I was a bit disappointed that Trump didn’t give the SNP’s John Swinney a hard time but maybe he’s just being diplomatic, biding his time for the right moment.
Well done Jaime. I never could see the logic in stopping using coal at Drax (which was built next to a coal field for convenience) and shipping wood chips from abroad to burn instead.